FF14 Shadowbringers MSQ patches *spoilers*

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I knew it was gonna happen, but god damn @ the Crystal Exarchs death

And surely this isnt the end of the ascians. wtf
Did you finish it off? The cutscenes at the end...
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I'm at "Nothing Unsaid" so I'm not finished the entire patch yet
ok now im finished the patch

I have watched the Endwalker trailer so I did know how this would go. Graha Tia is back and there is also that guy from stormblood who is possessed by an Ascian

But I didn't think that the acians would still be relevant now that all the unsundered are killed

Also, the graha tia of the source and the one from the first are still distinct, and the crystal exarchs sacrifice was still heartbreaking

Ive gotta finish off the rest of the Eden questline and the "Safekeeping" yellow quest. after that i -think- its a straight shot through to the end of the Endwalker MSQ and even patches with no detours?
almost done with eden only got 2 bosses left

not that its a bad sidequest but theres truly a world of difference in the quality of storytelling between the MSQ and non-MSQ content
Honestly the whole thing could have ended with Shadowbringers and I would have been satisfied. Those MSQ patch quests were great.
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finished eden

finished the void quests

i think ive done every major sidequest in the game apart from bozja and eureka at this point. so nothing else left but endwalker
Bozja was my favourite content ever. Eureka was also fun.
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Im afraid if I do those its gonna be another 50+ hours since its dead content that relies on gathering a party or something

do they have much influence on the endwalker story or characters in it?
Rika_Furude posted...
Im afraid if I do those its gonna be another 50+ hours since its dead content that relies on gathering a party or something

do they have much influence on the endwalker story or characters in it?
Can't speak for Eureka, but Bozja is fairly self contained. While it does tie into the lore of the Garleans, it has no impact on the main story of Endwalker.
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Rika_Furude posted...
Im afraid if I do those its gonna be another 50+ hours since its dead content that relies on gathering a party or something

do they have much influence on the endwalker story or characters in it?

They have a good healthy portion of the population on my server. And Bozja at least from what I remember has a line or two in endwalker, nothing major at all.
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Ill circle back to Bozja and Eureka one day then, probably after Dawntrail

currently watching credits. Bye bye Shadowbringers, what a damn good story that was

seems like the stakes going into Endwalker are quite low? When I watched the trailer I was promised yshtola arguing with sharlayan, invasions of horrors and everyone looking to the moon with MC on it. Yet MC was on the ground looking at the moon with everyone else
and its just some sundered ascian flying around summoning some towers and primals

the lead up the Shadowbringers in comparison was far more grim
Rika_Furude posted...
Ill circle back to Bozja and Eureka one day then, probably after Dawntrail

currently watching credits. Bye bye Shadowbringers, what a damn good story that was

seems like the stakes going into Endwalker are quite low? When I watched the trailer I was promised yshtola arguing with sharlayan, invasions of horrors and everyone looking to the moon with MC on it. Yet MC was on the ground looking at the moon with everyone else
and its just some sundered ascian flying around summoning some towers and primals

the lead up the Shadowbringers in comparison was far more grim
The Garleans going on the offense once again led by Zenos with the echo and the standard Ascian machinations should be plenty dangerous tbh, especially with the towers going up. It means you have Garlemald shedding their pride and some of their weaknesses. I can assure you the stakes go up within the expansion though.
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Rika_Furude posted...
Ive gotta finish off the rest of the Eden questline and the "Safekeeping" yellow quest. after that i -think- its a straight shot through to the end of the Endwalker MSQ and even patches with no detours?
You'll have to do role quests again, but the side content in EW has no major story tie ins. The trial series is built into the Patch MSQ so you're doing that whether you like it or not.

The story completely breaks off into a new plot in patches this time though. It's not like ShB where the current running plot lines carry into patches for a bit. There's also very little set up for DT. Only like half of the last patch is any build up to it at all.

Rika_Furude posted...
seems like the stakes going into Endwalker are quite low? When I watched the trailer I was promised yshtola arguing with sharlayan, invasions of horrors and everyone looking to the moon with MC on it. Yet MC was on the ground looking at the moon with everyone else
and its just some sundered ascian flying around summoning some towers and primals
If you've done the patch stuff, you've seen a bit about what those towers can do. Low stakes to WoL maybe, but a massive threat to the world at large.

As for the bigger stakes, you do still have Ascians running around (just not unsundered ones), and their "god" Zodiark.
I was kinda just assuming based on the endwalker trailer it would be leading into this expansion with some sort of literal invasion based on the estinien scene. Doesnt really matter that its not but eh

and yeah, I did a shit ton of side content from the previous patches, basically every job to 80 (sans gathering/crafting), all the trials and raid quests etc like Omega Weapon, sky pirates, and Alexander etc. basically with the presumption that a lot of it would be referenced during endwalker. But that endwalker itself is basically the end of this part of the story, and its own patch content is seperate. So I might be able to go into dawntrail without a care for side content.
Rika_Furude posted...
crystal exarchs sacrifice was still heartbreaking

Yeah I cried
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Just FYI TC, expansion trailers are meant for after you've finished the .4 patch. But man, god damn was the 5.3 fight and everything that lead up to it absolutely fucking amazing and perfect. Even the battle and everything in it is perfect.
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Rika_Furude posted...
Ill circle back to Bozja and Eureka one day then, probably after Dawntrail

currently watching credits. Bye bye Shadowbringers, what a damn good story that was

seems like the stakes going into Endwalker are quite low? When I watched the trailer I was promised yshtola arguing with sharlayan, invasions of horrors and everyone looking to the moon with MC on it. Yet MC was on the ground looking at the moon with everyone else
and its just some sundered ascian flying around summoning some towers and primals

the lead up the Shadowbringers in comparison was far more grim

Trust me, just play Endwalker and don't ask too many questions. Hopefully you won't get spoiled for the ride >_>
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Caelthus posted...
Just FYI TC, expansion trailers are meant for after you've finished the .4 patch. But man, god damn was the 5.3 fight and everything that lead up to it absolutely fucking amazing and perfect. Even the battle and everything in it is perfect.
yeah, but also I watched them all before ever playing to begin with. i attribute at least some of my initial desire to play to how good those trailers are. i probably would have played eventually though just due to how acclaimed FF14 and in particular Shadowbringers is
And yeah, 5.3 is one of the great ones. Nothing tops Amaurot and Emet-Selch though

SpiritSephiroth posted...
Trust me, just play Endwalker and don't ask too many questions. Hopefully you won't get spoiled for the ride >_>
the spoilers i have so far are:

we go to sharlayan
we go to the moon
we might even go to garlemald for a bit
we go to the void
the final boss is called "endsinger" and i saw a thumbnail of it
i think at the end, the warrior of light punches either zenos or fandaniel

more spoilers then id like, most gotten through youtube thumbnails since im slow, and youtube gives nonstop spoilers if you ever so much as play a single FF14 OST video once
Rika_Furude posted...
Nothing tops Amaurot and Emet-Selch though
Real and true. 5.3 is definitely a close second with IMO the Final Steps of Faith as 3rd.
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